Monthly Archives:May 2013

Ever play with toy cars and toy soldiers? Well, have I got a movie for you! On the posters it reads Fast & Furious 6. On screen, the title is just Furious 6. By any name, it’s a film created by thousands to serve the seven-to-seventeen year old boy in all of us. But abandon More —

As you can read on my other posts, I enjoyed Iron Man 3 and Star Trek into Darkness. And, as you can see from their box office returns and Rotten Tomatoes scores, I am not alone. But, as you can abundantly see elsewhere on the web, there are a vocal crew who did not. Naturally, More —

Nowhere is the Chinese Government’s portentous effect on its artists more apparent than in the “Chinese cut” of Iron Man 3. In order to appease the gatekeepers who held the permission for the film to be shown in China, somebody had to create less than five minutes of China-centric footage, featuring Wang Xueqi (Reign of More —

Star Trek into Darkness has brought into sharp focus that film series’ viewers can now be divided into four groups. In this case, fanatic Trekkers, geeky Trekkies, devoted Trek fans, and interested onlookers. The film is also a perfect compliment to Iron Man 3, in that, where once studios were slavishly interested in rabid nerds’ More —

The thing to remember about Shane Black, the director and co-writer of Iron Man 3, is that he not only wrote the Lethal Weapon film series, but also Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (co-starring Robert Downey Jr.), his homage to L.A. private eye film noir, named for what the Japanese called James Bond. So is it More —